Obama’s willing to take a chance on Iran

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting scoop: President Obama “secretly wrote” to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-October, describing “a shared interest in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.”

The same report noted that Obama’s letter stressed to Khamenei “that any cooperation on Islamic State was largely contingent on Iran reaching a comprehensive agreement with global powers on the future of Tehran’s nuclear program by a Nov. 24 diplomatic deadline.”